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1-Visitor
April 26, 2017
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Drawing Program User Guide, Tutorial and Hands-On Workshop

  • April 26, 2017
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Hi, everyone,

 

As it seems that there is not much help on

Drawing Program

, I decided  to open up a new discussion about this.

What I know until now:

- the documentation of Creo 4.0 (I use Creo 2.0- does anyone where I can find that?)

Creo Parametric Help Center

-the fact that

  • A drawing program can only have up to 80 characters per line.
  • Characters input beyond 80 will be automatically truncated
  • Line continuation characters are not accepted by drawing program

(courtesy of Tom that pointed me to this: https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS34738#_ga=1.116686790.1914719267.1490615705 )

So, the question is:

Is there any Tutorial and/or Hands-On Workshop for Drawing Program?

as I found for the Pro/PROGRAM:

Tutorial: Pro/PROGRAM Primer

Pro/PROGRAM Tutorial

https://d2t1xqejof9utc.cloudfront.net/files/13343/Pro_Program_HOW.pdf?.. with the models files downloaded from here:

https://d2t1xqejof9utc.cloudfront.net/files/13344/proe_data.zip?1342610431 taken from here:

how to use pro/prgram in ptc creo or proe wilfire 5.0 - GrabCAD

 

I will start searching for something similar to update the discussion.

Keep in touch,

Nic.

3 replies

24-Ruby III
April 26, 2017

Please check PTC's "Learning Exchange" page: Searching for 'drawing'

1-Visitor
April 26, 2017

Hi, Vladimir.

I checked: there's nothing there.

Do you have some experience with Drawing Program?

Nic.

24-Ruby III
May 3, 2017

Yes, I have experience in Creo in the past, but I am now on Siemens NX.

1-Visitor
April 28, 2017

It's such a shame that there is no knowledge about Drawing Program.

It's such a powerful tool!! And with Pro/PROGRAM could bring a lot of opportunities to an automated process in drawing.

I started to play with and I was very pleased of what it can do.

I tried to place a Symbol in one of the states and I couldn't find how. I know you can create detailed instances like the dimensions, notes and balloons but

I haven't found how to create/insert a Symbol in a View State.

I used the Help to find how's done:

To Create Detail Items in a Drawing State

To create detail items such as dimensions, notes, and balloon notes in a drawing state, choose Create from the DWG COMMANDS menu that appears when you click Tools > Drawing Program > Define States > Create State > Record Cmds. Items that you create in one state are not visible in any other state or outside of the drawing program.

15-Moonstone
May 2, 2017

if you just want to add, say for example a cloud symbol, to a view or part or whatever that is embedded in a state, then i think I have a solution for you.

Is that what you are looking to do?

1-Visitor
May 2, 2017

yes. a symbol with a text in it for example. so I change the language, it will be a different state with a different symbol with the new language. More simply put: a cloud symbol that I could see in a particular View State

23-Emerald III
June 16, 2017

For my drawing program, I use layers that are turned on and off  with the various notes I want displayed. The notes are already created, just not visible when that state is not active.

I do notes and drawing symbols the same way. They are selected when a parameter is changed.

1-Visitor
June 20, 2017

but his problem still remains: if someone deletes the note, it will remain deleted.

17-Peridot
June 21, 2017

That's right. This is the limitation currently Iam experiencing.